Wanted

Competition is intense, talent is rife and jobs are never secure.

Whether you’re going after your first job, dream job or want to rise to the dizzy heights of success with your current or future employer, learn how you can be the most wanted employee around.

Based on a life-time of experience working in the best companies around, David Freemantle gives you 50 ways to become the person everyone wants in their organisation:

• Become so good at your job that everyone else is second best compared with your best
• Discover the secrets that ensure you are hired, promoted and retained for any role
• Sharpen your talents, experiences and learning to ensure you always have a competitive edge

1. Fall in love
2. Believe you can do it
3. Deliver results
4. Be 100 per cent trustworthy every day
5. The importance of importance
6. Go MAD
7. Go down the road less travelled
8. Put your job into 3-D
9. Resonate
10. Be yourself
11. Have strong convictions
12. Embrace mutuality
13. Give something away every day
14. Make ‘yes’ (not ‘no’) your default option
15. Don’t let people down
16. Measure up
17. Be extra-curricular
18. Be in the know
19. Learn something interesting every day
20. Originate research
21. Become a ‘class act’
22. Listen to what people listen to
23. Create everything twice
24. Talk to strangers
25. Express opinions
26. Tell stories
27. Scribble notes
28. KISS
29. Fine-tune your voice
30. To be good look for the good
31. Weave networks
32. Jump ship
33. Be visible
34. Be quietly confident
35. Volunteer
36. Set yourself boundaries
37. Never complain
38. Aim to be word and fact perfect
39. Make sacrifices
40. Work for dictators
41. Don’t chase money
42. Experiment with irrationality
43. Do mental callisthenics
44. Travel the world
45. Be loyal to yourself
46. Do something new every day
47. Work hard
48. Be curious
49. Acquire a second string
50. Create possibilities

Common-sense, simplistic, not-helpful; Need I say more?

You can live your life without this trash and be a happier person.